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Six on Geography and Science: Here's How Your NY Fall Foliage Map Is Made; From seashore to beehive: 2018's best architectural...

Here's How Your NY Fall Foliage Map Is Made

Here's How Your NY Fall Foliage Map Is Made What time do the leaves turn color?

From seashore to beehive: 2018's best architectural photography - in pictures

From seashore to beehive: 2018's best architectural photography - in pictures

From seashore to beehive: 2018's best architectural photography - in pic... The shortlist for the 2018 Architectural Photography Awards highlights the expertise of architectural photograph...

The Personality Brokers, the Myers-Briggs test

"Guernica: What does the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator say about human personality, and what do you think are its limitations?

Emre: The indicator is supposed to chronicle your preferences along four different dimensions, creating a composite image of the person as one of sixteen different types. It is also supposed to be a kind of chronicle of the differences among normal people (by which the creators meant people who don’t have any kind of emotional or psychological disturbance or illness). But it’s also supposed to be general enough that it can show you the continuity among different people. That seems to me to be its great selling point: it’s offering you both this fantasy of individuality and this fantasy of sociality. So you are both one in sixteen and one in a million, as I like to say.

What are the drawbacks? I think there are a number. I think, if you are someone who’s invested in these kinds of instruments being reliable or valid, it is neither reliable nor valid. That’s not particularly what I’m interested in. If you’re interested, more generally, in how these instruments have been wielded—which I am interested in—then the primary concern is that these types of systems are all used to sort of flatten human beings out, and that they are used by the largest institutions of capitalist modernity to try to colonize people’s psychological livelihood, to try to make your personality into something that is not only knowable, but also usable by corporations, by universities, by the military, by religious institutions, by online dating sites. And that, to me, seems to be the biggest, darkest side of what personality testing imagines it can do."

Merve Emre: Portals to Self Discovery

Merve Emre: Portals to Self Discovery The author, scholar, and critic on her new book about personality testing, and the importance of holding women w...

Photos From the Deadly Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia 

- in case anyone was wondering what history, geography and science had to do with one another!

Photos From the Deadly Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia

Photos From the Deadly Earthquake and Tsunami in Indonesia Alan Taylor On September 28, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, triggering a localized tsunami, ...

Crawling Dead: How Ants Turn Into Zombies

Crawling Dead: How Ants Turn Into Zombies

Crawling Dead: How Ants Turn Into Zombies Allow us to explain the gruesome process by which ordinary ants become the pawns of an insidious and spectacular...

Autonomous Everything: How Algorithms Are Taking Over Our World

Autonomous Everything: How Algorithms Are Taking Over Our World

Autonomous Everything: How Algorithms Are Taking Over Our World At their core, computers run software algorithms. Machine learning is a particular class of software algorithm. ...